First of its Kind Survey and Research Report Reveals How
Organizations Use Big Data and AI to Solve Business Problems,
Communicate With Multiple Audiences

CHICAGO — (BUSINESS WIRE) — June 11, 2015 —
Narrative
Science, the leader in advanced natural language generation for the
enterprise, today announced the 2015 State of Artificial Intelligence
& Big Data in the Enterprise Report. The report includes a
survey and analysis revealing numerous insights into how all levels of
employees, from executive leadership to data scientists to managers,
view artificial intelligence (AI) and how they use it in conjunction
with Big Data in their organizations.

Many salient findings came to light and several confirmed what true
attitudes and beliefs towards AI are. One of the most interesting was
that respondents are positive about the impact it will have, with 80
percent reporting that AI-powered technologies creates jobs and improve
worker performance and efficiency, while only 15 percent believe that AI
eliminates jobs.

“This finding stands in sharp contrast to sensational headlines
reporting that AI is a force that could lead to a doomsday scenario,”
said Stuart Frankel, Narrative Science co-founder and CEO. “The survey
shows that people understand that AI doesn’t harm people or steal jobs,
it turns technology into a true partner; empowering employees to be more
productive, creative and better at what they do.”

The report also uncovered additional insights as to how organizations
are using AI and Big Data together. Key findings include:

58% of respondents’ organizations use Big Data technologies; 31% (the
highest respondent percentage) reported that data visualization apps
were the most commonly used data analytics technology in their
businesses.

58% of the respondents using Big Data technologies also have AI
deployed; 32% (the highest respondent percentage) of these report that
voice recognition and response solutions are the most widely used AI
solutions in their businesses.

49% (the highest respondent percentage) of those using AI and Big Data
reported that they use AI for automated communications that provide
business audiences with data used to make effective decisions; 14%
(the second highest respondent percentage) also use AI for automating
communications to consumer audiences.

59% of organizations using AI and Big Data technologies together
consider themselves to be highly effective at turning data into
information that can solve problems; while 53% of organizations using
only Big Data technologies consider themselves to be not effective to
only moderately effective at producing problem-solving information.

The survey’s 200 respondents included CEOs, Chief Innovation Officers,
CTOs, data scientists, managers, directors and others. Organizations
represented include multiple Fortune 500 companies. The businesses
represented spanned across industries, with 40 percent employing more
than 5,000 people and 23 percent of those coming from organizations that
employ 10,000 or more. No respondents came from the Narrative Science
customer base or internal marketing databases.

Narrative
Science is the leader in advanced natural language generation
(Advanced NLG) for the enterprise. Powered by artificial intelligence,
its Quill™ platform analyzes data from disparate sources, understands
what is important to the end user and then automatically generates
perfectly written narratives to convey meaning from the data for any
intended consumer or business audience, at unlimited scale. Narrative
Science does what data visualizations cannot: its patented technology
adds value to data by identifying relevant data points and relaying them
through professional, conversational language that people can
immediately comprehend, trust and act on. Fortune 500 companies in
diverse industries including financial services, government,
manufacturing, retail and healthcare rely on machine-scale automation
from Narrative Science to increase efficiency through the elimination of
expensive manual narrative generation processes—freeing employees to
focus on innovation and high-productivity activities—and to better serve
their customers with useful written content in a consistent brand voice.
Organizations such as American Century Investments, MasterCard, the U.S.
intelligence community and National Health Services (NHS) of England
employ Narrative Science to innovate data-driven products and services
that provide customers with information that empowers them to make
purchases, investments and other valuable decisions that improve their
lives.